OpenFeint brings 60 new mobile social games to China through partnership with The9

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Earlier this year, the mobile social gaming platform OpenFeint has teamed up with one of its investors, Chinese game company The9 for game developers for the Android platform. OpenFeint and The9 announced that he will use the $ 100 million Fund9, based on Chinese mobile Internet Development Fund, funding for game developers using the OpenFeint platform for Chinese games.

In just three months of work The9's, branded version of OpenFeint, game zone, already disseminates 60 live games through 30 App stores in China. OpenFeint and The9 also announced that they have chosen the first five recipients of funding from their Android porting initiative. With this funding, developers will be able to transfer these popular iOS games for Android and sell them at the global level. The9 then localize and publish games for the Chinese market.

Games were selected based on their quality, downloads and the ability to game developers. Some games include: Pix'n love rush, BulkyPix, Shift! 2 fishing Cactus, iSlash Deullo games, mini motor Racing binary factories and Babel, BulkyPix.

OpenFeint is not the only company in an attempt to cash in on the large potential of the Chinese gaming market. Zynga also develop its presence in China with a new partnership with Chinese Internet giant Tencent, launching a beta version of Zynga town, the new Chinese localized version of CityVille.

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I quit breathing

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Earlier today, I had an amazing realization: I spend at least half of my breath in the day. The other half I am breathing out. However, I am literally my breath throughout his life.

Enough.

Today I am leaving the breath. Will no longer be my light is constantly on the oxygen consumption and disposal of carbon dioxide. In a bold move, I will be free from oppressive yoke of gaseous Exchange.

Now, I know what you think: If I quit, breathing cold Turkey, not my blood fill up fast with unwanted carbon dioxide? Possible. I am sure that in certain locations in coming weeks, I'll have to take from time to time by the inward or outward breath, to deal with emergency situations or avoid asphyxiation. But, generally speaking, I did.

I have a feeling for the next two minutes, at least, my performance is going to go through the roof. After that, who can say? I'll post the results here at TechCrunch.

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GameFly, Inc. to launch Windows/Mac digital distribution game store this holiday season

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GameFly just made a first step towards the future without physical media with a pre-announcement of the forthcoming digital game distribution platform. Advertisement, no real details, including the name of the service, but he said to start this coming holiday.

This service allows subscribers to GameFly buy Windows/Mac games instead of just rent as is usually done via GameFly. This brings a whole new level in service GameFly currently Netflix video games. Upcoming computer client is more than just shop as well. News, trailers and video clips will attempt to make a programme in a crowded niche market, currently dominated by Valve's steam digital distribution platform.

Sean Spector, GameFly co-founder and Senior Vice President of business development and content, "we are happy to inform the consumer of digital gaming in a meaningful way, as no other service or retail brings physical and digital games together as GameFly.

Closed beta will start 8 September 2011 event Los Angeles, California. All participants will receive a beta code for themselves and each other. The beta codes can also be found on the services page, because, you know, not everyone can make it to LA.

This service joins Steam and EA's recently launched origin platform. Before you start sending just a few months ago, a couple of pretty sitting atop mountains of digital distribution. Now with the origin and GameFly service, steam is better to begin construction of fortification its position; come the clones.

GameFly rents and provides video games to customers by mail, modeled on Netflix. For a flat monthly fee you can rent as many games as they want.

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IOS W3i launches new service for game developers

Monetization and distribution network for app developers, W3i, today announces a programme specifically for iOS developer of the game. New service currently in beta, simply called "platform games", the company said. Its objective will be to meet the challenges faced by developers of games, such as Server installation, maintenance, security, showcases and analytics.

The idea for the service has a number of interviews with the developers of mobile games by W3i in recent weeks. The most common headaches, especially for small or hobbyist developers engaged in installation of the infrastructure necessary to support their applications, the company found. Most developers most likely will focus on the actual game is not a server, setting up and maintenance.

In addition the new service will also help freemium developers create and maintain virtual goods store, which is easily reused across multiple games. Analysis Services also includes detailed breakdown of income by elements of the store, which is a function that does not currently offer several competing analysis services.

W3i now invites interested developers to sign up for the beta service and providing feedback. In exchange for service testing, these developers will get access at no charge. There will be a limited number of spots available in the beta period. No information about the date and price of the official launch was announced at this time.

You can learn more about the new program here.

W3i increases revenue, distribution and engagement for the consumer desktop applications, browser add-ons and applications for mobile devices. On the side of the desktop application app publishers get paid for to recommend appropriate applications.

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Zynga's new S-1: Zynga on internal evaluation in March 2011, amounted to $ 11.5 billion

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Zynga just filed another variant of the S-1 for the company's public offering of $ 1 billion, and that's what's new. Firstly in filing Zynga said that in March of this year, the company had an internal assessment to approximately $ 11.5 billion. Page 70: our Board of Directors determined that the fair value of our common shares and preferred shares series z stays $ 13.96 per share.

This was five months ago, and clearly Zynga in evaluation has increased dramatically. Many expect companies to be assessed at the time of posting to drop nearly 20 billion dollars of the United States.

Secondly, the company updated its income breakdown of your game. Four years ago, 93 percent of Zynga's online income came from his best three games. As you can see on the page two updated filing, the top three games accounted for 63% of online income in the first quarter of 2011. So basically it becomes less dependent on FarmVille and his other hits for income.

The company also published information on the revolving credit fund at page 63, in which Zynga has a line of credit up to $ 1 billion. Zynga to correct the error accounting for its Q1 2011 earnings, who added $ 7.5 million increase in Q1 revenue (p. 30), the social gaming giant Q1 revenues up to well over $ 240 million.

Zynga also added more than 300 staff members in the past two months, raising the total number of 2.543 employees worldwide.

In July, Zynga update its S-1 include a complete list of their investors and more detailed information on its relationship with Facebook.

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Algorithmically created realistic sound exhibition at SIGGRAPH

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Researchers at Cornell was hard at work on a project that sounds strange at first, but is actually a very natural extension of the existing 3D and technology. They are the engine for the production of sounds colliding objects, simulating materials are themselves objects in virtual space, and then calculate the forces and vibrations, which would be produced. Academically this complex, but it has many practical applications.

Simulation of noise may be the easiest way to apply 3D games that, despite almost photorealistic models, textures, and lighting, still rely on a limited cache of pre-recorded sounds to play when, say, the tables turned over. Imitation of each object on the table and tracing the physical consequences of collisions with other objects, and the resulting consequences, more realistic and accurate sound, you can create on the fly — or at least this theory.

Now researchers recognize two obstacles. First the physical world is much easier in some cases, in order to ensure the effective amount of data. The ball hitting the floor is one thing, with only a few factors to calculate, but what about the stack the dishes rattling against each other at the table, which was jostled? You must reduce the number of points of contact, so thousands or millions of different interactions must be monitored separately. At the same time, they should be enough to create a realistic sound. This balancing is determined by the amount and type of objects and processing power, they have at hand.

And it seems that not everyone can be created completely from scratch just yet. Their demo at SIGGRAPH have a stack of dishes mentioned above, but apparently not flame soundtracking so easy. Part of the low-frequency they received, but for the rest had to base their models based on sounds recorded and then "paint" them at the bottom. That said, the most frequent sounds are predictable in the same way physical interactions are unpredictable (the time that they themselves are the amount of physical reactions) and just get the tools to do so.

Parallel processing hardware (such as graphics cards or many multi-core CPUs) will need to make these calculations in real time, though: imitating the noise of the light hours only for the short clip. But the very idea of convincing anyone who heard "breaking glass", or "Ricochet" noises in the game or even movies, where a limited catalogue of sounds.

Now it is still in the labs, but it's definitely the kind of thing that gets turned into a product and sold. Companies like Nvidia and Havok would love to get their hands on it. Unfortunately there aren't any videos, but if one becomes available once shown at SIGGRAPH, we'll put it here.

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HTML5 Game seen running on Apple TV

A hacker managed to get through the HTML5 game running on Apple TV (2 G), after receiving the first jailbroken device and installed application couch surfer. (Couch surfer provides Web browser for the jailbroken Apple TV).

The game is a simple card game Blackjack, and frankly, it's not much to look at. However, adding a note, as it shows that Apple TV is a functional platform for applications based on HTML5.

Of course if Apple wants to open the Apple TV to support a wide range of HTML5 games and applications is another thing altogether. While HTML5 will provide an alternative to simple Flash-based games, it can also become a credible alternative to the Apple App Store applications in time, too. (AppleTV, currently running apps, but there are rumors that he will eventually).

Here is a video game in action:

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